US President Donald Trump has said he would “absolutely” consider bombing Iran again. Responding to a question from the BBC’s Nomia Iqbal at a White House press briefing, he said he would “without question” attack the country if intelligence concluded Iran could enrich uranium to concerning levels. The US became directly involved in the conflict...
Japan condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. “That hit ended the war,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that...
The end of Israel’s successful 12 Day War has changed the face of the Middle East already. Gone is the specter of nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles aimed at Tel Aviv, Haifa, and other Israeli population centers. The ballistic missile infrastructure itself has taken massive damage, as has the Iranian drone inventory and production capability....
At least 20 people have been killed and 52 others wounded in a suicide bombing at a church on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria’s interior ministry has said. The attacker entered Mar Elias Church in Dweila during a service and opened fire with a weapon before detonating an explosive vest, the ministry said in a...
Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Victoria Gill BBC News Science Team Getty Images / Maxar Technologies. Iran’s Natanz nuclear site has been a target of Israel’s airstrikes The IAEA has described the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities as “deeply concerning”. On Monday, its Director General Rafael Grossi said that military escalation “increases the chance of...
The April bombing of a Yemeni oil port by U.S. forces that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians and disrupted the delivery of lifesaving aid to one of the world’s most war-torn nations was “an apparent war crime” that should be investigated, a leading international human rights group said Wednesday. On April 17, a series...
A suspected accomplice in the bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, CA last month was arrested yesterday at Kennedy airport in New York. A man was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City overnight in connection with the car bombing last month outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, two...
I’m not sure any political book in recent memory has gotten more free publicity than “Original Sin.” Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have been everywhere. They are so ubiquitous that one day, aliens in Alpha Centauri will think the two are major celebrities or demigods who somehow acquired worshippers at an explosive rate. Ordinary human...
Five children were killed or wounded in a US strike on a ceramics factory on Sunday. The U.S. has killed over 100 people in Yemen in less than a month of bombardments, Yemen health officials say, killing dozens of civilians as the Trump administration escalates its attacks on the region. The Yemen Health Ministry reported...
Chloe Laversuch BBC News, Yorkshire West Yorkshire Police Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, died in hospital after being stabbed in Huddersfield A teenage boy who was fatally stabbed in Huddersfield had fled the war in Syria after being injured in a bombing. Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, suffered a single wound to the neck and...
David Cowan Home affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland News AFP The Lockerbie bombing on 21 December 1988 remains the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil A Libyan writer and politician who published documents linking his country’s intelligence service to the Lockerbie bombing has been arrested on national security charges. Samir Shegwara was taken into custody two...